Since I am not ready to work yet, obvious by wasting time with silly comments, I submit that the author of e linked piece is all over the map with his thoughts and says nothing.

Baseball could use a little college football or european soccer to solve the issue of "the best" team not getting the top trophy. Teams could easily develop smaller championships and trophies for particular in season events. College football has the backyard brawl and so forth. Soccer has various cups based on a season series winner. Adds excitement and bragging rights without trying to topple a playoff system that wont be toppled. I could get into a Yankees-Red Sox Hammer of the Gods trophy chase.

I get the shadenfreude thing. I just can't seem to shake the idea that we could have beaten Texas,Detroit or NY if we had just been able to throw one effing more strike. I'm having trouble letting go.. Thanks for being here. Go Bruins:)

I get the shadenfreude thing. I just can't seem to shake the idea that we could have beaten Texas,Detroit or NY if we had just been able to throw one effing more strike. I'm having trouble letting go.. Thanks for being here. Go Bruins:)

I agree - baseball would profit from a "Best Record" trophy. Maybe the AL and NL championships should just go to the best regular season record, while the playoffs would be just for permission to play in the World Series. Baseball is a lot more like English Soccer than it is like NFL football.

I agree - baseball would profit from a "Best Record" trophy. Maybe the AL and NL championships should just go to the best regular season record, while the playoffs would be just for permission to play in the World Series. Baseball is a lot more like English Soccer than it is like NFL football.

I agree - baseball would profit from a "Best Record" trophy. Maybe the AL and NL championships should just go to the best regular season record, while the playoffs would be just for permission to play in the World Series. Baseball is a lot more like English Soccer than it is like NFL football.

Dudes, this is the sickness that is the Nation. The Sox had what the Globe calls the worst September in history, the Yanks won the division and had the best record in the AL - and you talk about the failures of the Yankees? Sickness.

The sabremetricians who work for the Sox can tell you that the best teams are usually NOT the teams that make it through the first two rounds of the playoffs. SI has an article about this from a week. But on and on the Sox fans go with Yankee hating.

Dudes, this is the sickness that is the Nation. The Sox had what the Globe calls the worst September in history, the Yanks won the division and had the best record in the AL - and you talk about the failures of the Yankees? Sickness.

The sabremetricians who work for the Sox can tell you that the best teams are usually NOT the teams that make it through the first two rounds of the playoffs. SI has an article about this from a week. But on and on the Sox fans go with Yankee hating.